sexual generation

American  

noun

1. the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.

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Etymology

Origin of sexual generation

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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sexual generation

The sexual generation of chain salps gives rise to forms which reproduce by buds.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)

Indeed, when a plant has monoecious or dioecious flowers, the distinction between the asexual and the sexual generation has practically been lost, and the spore-bearing generation has become identified with the sexual generation.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

Inferior vegetables and animals propagate by solitary generation only; next order by both; superior by sexual generation alone.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

The sexual generation is always a leafy plant, which is not developed directly from the spore but is borne on a well-marked and usually filamentous protonema.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Along with that remarkable process which, beginning in minute forms with what is called conjugation, developed into sexual generation, there came into play causes of frequent and marked fortuitous variations.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert